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    7970m Afterburner Question

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by sigbin, May 6, 2014.

  1. sigbin

    sigbin Notebook Geek

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    Hey guys! I've had my P150EM for 2 years now. And I disabled the enableulps on regedit to get my utilization to stop running at 99% all the time.

    And while this was all good and well, I also have noticed that now, my GPU just idles. Before I did the tweak, whenever I enable MSI afterburner right after booting the laptop, it would show that the GPU was disabled, but after the tweak, it now idles. and doesnt really shut off.

    Is this normal? or did I do something wrong?

    Fix was found here


    =)

    Sev
     
    sigbin, May 6, 2014
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  2. Marecki_clf

    Marecki_clf Homo laptopicus

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    ULPS stands for Ultra Low Power State. It is basically an implementation of AMD ZeroCore Power technology, which allows AMD dGPU to be switched off completely on systems with switchable graphics. By disabling ULPS you force the AMD dGPU to be switched on all the time. It will run on reduced clocks, but it will never power down completely.
     
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    sigbin Notebook Geek

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    Thanks! =) Now I understand.


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    sigbin, May 7, 2014
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